June 24, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters take a look at the question of faculty diversity, the value of a college degree, the philosophical implications of hashtags and the need to re-think our basic educational prioritie......

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June 23, 2011

CEI Attorney on OCR's New Sexual Harassment Procedures

Glenn Ricketts

I noted recently that the US Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) had mandated new standards under which colleges and universities recieving federal funds would be obligated to i......

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June 23, 2011

The Reverse Metamorphsis of Sustainability: Economy

William H. Young

In the third of his four-part series on the goals of the sustainability movement, William Young ponders its probable economic impact.

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June 23, 2011

Tyranny or Theft? Part I

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood begins a three-part critique of the sustainability movement, based on his attendance at two recent conferences.

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June 22, 2011

Working Without Pay, Paying to Work

Glenn Ricketts

There's an interesting review over at NRO of Ross Perlin's Intern Nation, a book that examines the growing and almost wholly invisible number of unpaid intern positions that are eagerly staf......

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June 22, 2011

Colleges Ignore the Most Basic of Skills -- Writing

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Murray Sperber points out that most college courses do little or nothing to help students become good (or even moderately competent) at that mo......

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June 22, 2011

California Affiliate Continues Campaign Against Racial Preference Bill

John Ellis

The California Association of Scholars steps up its opposition to proposed legislation which would authorize the use of racial preferences in college admissions. Have the state's legislators for......

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June 22, 2011

Video: The First Six Months Behind the Ivory Curtain

Andy Nash

Inside Academia's Andy Nash offers some video highlights from his first half year of interviews.

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June 22, 2011

The Reverse Metamorphosis of Sustainability: Nature

William H. Young

In the second of four articles on the goals of the sustainability movement, William Young examines its impulse to return to a pre-rational, mystical experience of Nature.

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June 21, 2011

Divided US Appeals Court Upholds Texas "Top Ten Per Cent" Law

Glenn Ricketts

Our friend Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity notes at Phi Beta Cons that a full US Fifth Circuit Appeals court has upheld the ruling of a three-judge panel in favor of the "top ten pe......

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